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I built a Tinder-like matchmaking app where users log in with their Facebook account and the app then auto-matches users by their FB likes. I thought taking the hassle out of swiping could give my app an edge over Tinder. It was working fine for a week or so before Facebook caught up and revoked my API keys (effectively killing the app). They didn't give any reason besides some vague recommendation to review their Te…
- https://linqable.pro/ - https://podradio.live - https://arounda.world/
All three built in 2020 with the awesome Elixir Phoenix. Hopefully, at least one of them will take off in 2021.
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Couldn't one expect at least a job offer?
Maybe, but working hard for months/years a chance at a job offer doesn't sound that amazing anyway. BTW I worked in a startup once and a guy, who was developing opensource plugin for our product, applied for a job with us. The owner (a known blogger BTW) said "Why hire him if he's already working for us?"
Not only you had a person that already knew much more about your product than the average potential hire, but a person that probably was interested in your product (and maybe knew what users wanted) too.
Built a modern comparison engine for tech products ( https://picked.arnaud.at ) Feedback and conversion were amazing but SEO was lacking since Google hates search engines. I needed written content (or advertising) to compete with classical review websites. Bittersweet, but I learned a lot and it got me my first job in the bay so I don't regret it!
Easy fix. Cache all searches or last 200 or so... That way, google indexes the serps page, or use amazon product api to bring in reviews from amazon, etc... Then that content would be searchable wouldn't it? Also, maybe rely less on google, more on social media. Seems lots of businesses don't use google at all any more for growth but social nets, launch pages, ads, groups, etc... Create your own subreddit and a bot t…
(Unfortunately scraping Amazon is forbidden in their ToS, I got banned from the affiliate program for it)
Tech-wise you'd be surprised, the website is 90% static! It's simple vanilla JS and PHP, with a homemade framework, hence the great performance.
I and a few classmates in business school built a service to print people's top 5 instagram pics (top = #comments + #likes) every month and mail it to them as a nice physical keepsake. I was really flabbergasted that we couldn't get even 10 customers, we spend nearly $1,000 on ads before calling it quits (if we had had 10 customers we may have kept iterating but the setback was big enough to decide to just stop, and…
I’m currently subscribed to a service that allows me to select 8 pictures every month and have them printed and sent to me. They supply new albums at extra cost when the current one is full (have 3 so far, over about 1.5 years). Apparently there is a market for this kind of thing. Mine is targeted at young parents though, maybe that makes a difference?
My grand-parents love it, so yeah there's a market for this kind of things (at least as long as this generation lives).
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It's a really fun game. I was a little frustrated by some words which didn't seem to be recognized - I think 'rome' and 'zen' were two, whereas much more obscure words were accepted.
Thanks! Proper nouns (generally, words that start with a capital letter) are disallowed so Rome won't work. Hmm, Zen was recently added to Scrabble in 2018 though as it's a proper noun but has started being used as an adjective: https://www.wsj.com/articles/zen-and-the-art-of-scrabble-dic...
I made an Android app to keep track of my domain name collections -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.every From the name (Every.ID), you can say that it aims to be the one app to keep track of everything you collect: domain names, postage stamps, games, etc. My end goal is to make it pluggable with API e.g. connect with your Steam account to auto-sync your game collection. Unfortunately, since I'm do…
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Thanks! Proper nouns (generally capitalised words) are disallowed so June won't. Not sure how best to communicate this in the game though. The original had a wall-of-text pop-up of the rules when you first started that I want to avoid and I'd rather players picked up the rules organically. Maybe showing a "proper nouns and capitalised words not allowed" message when you spelled one would be a nice approach but a list…
It is interesting because the same happened to me while trying the game. If something happens to almost everybody, why don't you change your game? When I design a complex system like a game or computer programs, once the system starts working on their own, it talks to me. I learn a lot from the interaction with it. This is specially important when you have millions of users. They communicate to you what the next step…
Adding proper nouns has a few issues though:
- Where would you get an accurate dictionary of proper nouns? This would need to include e.g. people names, places, brand names. If it wasn't constantly kept up to date it could lead to more frustrations than just disallowing them.
- There's so many proper nouns it would bloat the game download. The English dictionary used right now takes about 3MB, which is the limiting factoring getting the game download lower than 1MB zipped. I'm failing to find an estimate but if you include proper nouns, the dictionary would be an order or magnitude bigger. Maybe less of an issue for mobile app store downloads but I want the game to load fast when shared online. A web service to check the words won't work for offline play either.
It's feeling like a "dictionary words only" message somewhere is the only practical solution. I could adapt the (single!) tutorial message at the start of the game to be "swipe in any direction to spell dictionary words" but "dictionary words" would probably be overlooked. There's no menu screen at the start because I know people are impatient. :)
Two years ago we built this tool https://imagetranslate.com to translate and recreate images such as banners, advertisements, brochures etc. It is being used by individuals as of now. (freelance translators, marketers, ecomm resellers) . But we wanted to integrate it with a bigger localisation tool as it would be of much more value for their day to day translation jobs. We couldn't close a deal there.
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Thanks! Proper nouns (generally, words that start with a capital letter) are disallowed so Rome won't work. Hmm, Zen was recently added to Scrabble in 2018 though as it's a proper noun but has started being used as an adjective: https://www.wsj.com/articles/zen-and-the-art-of-scrabble-dic...
Your understanding of the meaning of proper noun is inverted :)